John Strausbaugh

John Strausbaugh is an award-winning author, historiographer and journalist. His most recent books include three deep explorations of New York City history. The Village, his epic history of Greenwich Village, was hailed as "rare and refreshing" in the New York Times and selected as one of Kirkus Review's Best Books of 2013. City of Sedition (2016), his history of New York City during the Civil War, won the Fletcher Pratt Award for best nonfiction of the year, and the Eugene Feit Award in Civil War Studies. Victory City (2018), a paradigm-shifting look at New York during World War II, was praised as "a compulsively engaging read" (Washington Post) and "remarkable" (New York Journal of Books). His other books include The Wrong Stuff: How the Soviet Space Program Crashed and Burned; Sissy Nation; and Rock ‘Til You Drop. He is a former editor of the legendary downtown weekly New York Press, and has been a contributing writer for the New York Times, the Washington Post, and elsewhere. He lives in Manhattan.